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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MarianLH: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Harry: [qb] But he was wearing the wrong rank to be a Colonel. And probably the wrong color too.[/qb][/QUOTE]I don't recall his rank pin, but I recently had a thought about his division colour. According to Bob Fletcher's notes, the head of a department on a starship (e.g., chief engineer, chief science officer, etc) can opt to trade in his division colour undershirt for a white one, and white stripes on the right shoulder and left sleeve (albeit with a diagonal hash mark in the division colour). This was seen on Saavik in [i]Star Trek III[/i], and on lots of Starfleet Command personnel in [i]Star Trek IV[/i]. Mr. Scott started wearing white too, although only after his promotion to captain. (Saavik, OTOH, couldn't [i]wait[/i] to start flashing command colours, even though she was the CSO of a two-for-a-credit tub like [i]Grissom[/i]. And only a lieutenant to boot. :) ) So it occured to me, maybe SFMC colonels can opt to wear white too. Although to be perfectly accurate, there should have been a hash mark with the Marines colour (whatever it is) on both the shoulder and sleeve stripes. Saavik's uniform in [i]III[/i] was correct for a chief science officer--the gray hash mark is visible a couple of times. But I don't remeber if Scotty's was. Most of the time he wasn't wearing his tunic anyway, just the white undershirt and that thingamabob-studded tool vest. Anybody see what kind of rank pin West was wearing? A colonel's usually analagous to a captain, but if it's something close--like a commander, or a commodore--it could probably be explained away. Or ignored as a VFX error. Or, as you say, "colonel" could be an informal title. Or an honourary thing, like the old TOS "fleet captain" reference. Something similar to the RMN idea of making a starship captain an honourary marine colonel when they do something spectacular, but aren't quite ready to be promoted yet. As is so often the case, the data is scant and ambiguous and each person can interpret it however they prefer. :) Marian [/QB][/QUOTE]
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